Runs Compose stacks for a one-person shop and a basement lab. Obsessed with healthchecks that mean readiness, not a green TCP handshake.
Monitoring
Beszel vs Netdata for Monitoring a Few Home Servers: A Light Agent or Per-Second Everything
Ivo Markham
October 16, 2026
Homelab
Dozzle vs Grafana Loki for Docker Logs on One Home Server: Live Tail or Searchable History
Ivo Markham
October 14, 2026
DevOps
Self-Hosting
Docker on a VPS vs a Platform Build When the Agent Wrote the Dockerfile
Ivo Markham
September 30, 2026
DevOps
Web Development & Design
Do You Need a Separate Staging Server for a Small Website?
Ivo Markham
September 27, 2026
Docker
Self-Hosting
A wget Healthcheck vs a Client Inside the Image: Containers That Pass Before the App Listens
Ivo Markham
September 22, 2026
Homelab
Self-Hosting
Uptime Kuma Keyword Monitors vs HTTP 200: Sites That Look Up While the App Is Dead
Ivo Markham
September 21, 2026
Docker
Homelab
Docker Compose start_period vs start_interval: When the Stack Looks Up but Nginx Isn't Ready
Ivo Markham
September 18, 2026
Docker
Homelab
Docker Compose start_interval vs a One-Shot Healthcheck: Containers That Flip Healthy Before Migrations Run
Ivo Markham
August 25, 2026